What News Excited You From ComiCon?

I've barely started combing through the announcements, but in addition to some cool trailers I was excited (with reservations) to learn about the Frequency tv series (based on the movie) premiering this fall... on the CW.

I have a bad feeling that way too much time will be spent with the lead character trying to get her relationship with her boyfriend/fiancee back as she is forced to screw with the timeline every week. The trailer didn't give me that impression, I just know what the CW does to shows.

I loved the original movie so much, and this trailer has some great things going for it. So I'm hopeful but with reservations.

The Wonder Woman trailer was such a pleasant surprise for me. I though Gal Gadot looking cool and powerful as Wonder Womans was something only Zack Snyder could accomplish, but she looks awesome in that trailer!

The Justice League trailer was a nice teaser, but definitely seemed to be targeting Marvel movie fans with its numerous jokes.

For me it was all about Wonder Woman and Justice League. My wife and I had just re-watched Batman V Superman on Bluray a few nights earlier (wife's fist time) so we were fully in that DC Universe Euphoria. Wonder Woman looks good. She is going to be a powerful character, and a good role model for my 11 year-old daughter, though it will almost certainly be rated M in Australia, so not sure when I'll allow her to watch it. Wife and I will definitely see it at the cinema though, so we can make a determination (we did allow the kids to see Star Wars 7 despite the M rating)

The Justice League trailer/clip also got me excited. There were several moments in it that caused me to laugh out loud. I think I'm going to identify a lot with Barry Allen. He's a geek after all, one of us; and Jason Momoa is likely to be awesome as Aquaman. I share your misgivings about the tone though. While a little humour can be uplifting, and while they've said all along the tone of Justice League would be lighter, I don't want them to move too far away from the gritty realistic tone of the last two films. When the threat to Earth appears, I want to feel the weight of it. I don't want to see the heroes cracking jokes while the survival of our species is at stake (we have Marvel for that).

But, one thing I have learned is to trust Snyder. I'm sure he'll deliver something awesome.

The reveal of the name Star Trek: Discovery for the new TV series was cool. Can't say I'm a fan of the design for the ship, but that's not the most important thing. The name suggests we'll be going out and exploring, which is great.